Help! I have started pulling my hair out. My computer is a Pentium Dual Core CPU E5300 with an Intel G41 Express Chipset incorporated graphics. I can not get Guiminer to work. Am I screwed with these graphics? If so what should I get that will work but won't bankrupt me? Thanks......Sandy
You can't profitably mine Bitcoin with CPUs or GPUs anymore. You will need an ASIC to mine Bitcoin.
You could mine Litecoin or any other scrypt coin like Dogecoin with a GPU but there are ASICs out there now which will soon render GPU mining obsolete - just like the way it did with Bitcoin. Besides, your graphics card is integrated, so there would be no point in GPU mining anyway since it wouldn't be powerful enough.
There are a couple of coins out there that are still mineable with GPUs and unlike Litecoin, don't have ASICs built for them yet. Examples include Darkcoin (X11) and Vertcoin (scrypt-N). If you want to mine these, all you need to do is buy a graphics card and install it on your PC. You could also sell the graphics card on eBay anytime you want or use it to play games.
You could also try mining CPU coins. Check out the
CPU Coin List. If you decide to do this, then it probably wouldn't hurt to upgrade your CPU beforehand since yours is a bit old.
After choosing a coin and mining it, you can then trade it for bitcoins on an altcoin exchange such as Cryptsy. Or you could just buy BTC instead and skip mining altogether. In fact, you would end up with a lot more BTC that way.
